Fourth annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the joint lunatic asylum for the counties of Monmouth, Hereford, Brecon, Radnor, and city of Hereford, for the year 1856.

  • United Counties' Lunatic Asylum (Abergavenny, Wales)
Date:
1857
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Credit: Fourth annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the joint lunatic asylum for the counties of Monmouth, Hereford, Brecon, Radnor, and city of Hereford, for the year 1856. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    state; while many of those who suffer from in¬ sanity in a chronic form, provided they are not without some amount of understanding, derive instruction and comfort from the daily services ; and even those who are not possessed of under¬ standing, find them an agreeable change to vary the monotony of their existence. The patients have been supplied with religious books whenever a demand occurred ; and every personal application for a book has been attended to, provided the applicant seemed likely to take care of what was entrusted to him. I have the honour to be, Your obedient servant, W. G DAVIES, Chaplain. ©